We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog! Learn more about this exciting change on the blog: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

If you have received a direct message from me for a voting request, please ignore. I did not send this and have asked Bluesky to investigate

Come to the launch of the Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Huge thanks to the editors for a Herculean effort. Includes chapter by me on the first Frankfurt Trial and by my former PhD student Marianne Zwicker on Romani testimonies,plus all sorts of excellent folk eg @ankahajkova.bsky.social

Thinking of Suleika Aldini on this European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma, which commemorates the 500,000 men, women, and children who were imprisoned, tortured, and killed leading up to and during the Second World War. /1

Three more months until People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust comes out @uoftpress.bsky.social and translated @williamrossjones.bsky.social you can preorder below. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Yesterday I had a great lunch with @history-doug.bsky.social whose highly readable book I read recently. "Urning" is a very readable and important contribution to 19th century German history and the emergence of modern queer identity. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Auf Tschechisch (und Deutsch) in ORF.

Die Doku, die die BBC nicht senden durfte. Wäre Pflichtprogramm für jeden, die/der über Gaza spricht. Man müsste dafür noch nicht einmal einen Artikel lesen. Nach 20 Monaten Genozid-Verharmlosung wäre das im Grunde das Minimum für Journalist:innen. Passiert natürlich nicht.

"Beneath the streetlights, a patrol car parks up at the gates of the cemetery in Potočari. On 11 July 1995, the village set the scene for what was to be the largest mass killing in Europe since the second world war." @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature. newfascismsyllabus.com

📣 New Academic Book Talk just listed! Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger. Tickets: buff.ly/wr16F1B

It is out! @jonahgarde.bsky.social's magnificent and field-defining book. A good way to support this fab project and amazing scholar is to acquire the book for your personal or institutional library. You'll notice it is also available open access. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

One week to go! Eine Woche noch! 🌈 Kommt alle, Universität Bremen, 2.7.! Ich freue mich @lisamirabai.bsky.social

And for the pride month (so far coming with horrible news every day) I give you something really good: Uta’s book is now officially a thing! Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps coming to you next year! 📕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

In happy news, the Manuscript Review Committee of the University of Toronto Press has approved my book manuscript on homophobia in Nazi camps in 2026! I am delighted and thankful @ankahajkova.bsky.social @cmick21.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

And here is a bit about him from @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ausc...

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

So I wrote an essay about images of women kissing in the Holocaust. Noone knows who they were. They are lesbian chimeras. First: Mendel Grossman at the Łódź Central prison, possibly May 1942

Great to see research recently published in HWJ by @ankahajkova.bsky.social and Oksana Dudko referenced in Swedish newspapers. Read the full forum article here (free access) - six historians of Eastern Europe discuss decolonizing approaches doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

Das Letzte Ghetto ist nun vorbestellbar (€35). Danke, @megalley.bsky.social @transcript-verlag.bsky.social www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Strebel's book has been out for 22 years. I remember when it came out. *Some* colleagues writing on Ravensbrück were complaining how this source was missing & that detail was not correct. There were some petty reviews. Not a year passes by that I do not pull out that book and always find the answer.

Ich freue mich sehr, nächste Woche im Kolloquium Kultur/Geschichte an der Uni Bielefeld Einblicke in mein Dissertationsprojekt „Von Sittlichkeit zu Selbstbestimmung? Sexualisierte Gewalt in deutschen & englischen Großstädten, 1920er-1960er Jahre“ zu geben: aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/event/lisa-h...

Seit ein paar Jahren gebe ich Schreibworkshops für Nachfahr*innen von NS-Verfolgten. Immer mal wieder sind auch Personen aus Sinti und Roma Communities dabei. Und es erschüttert mich jedes Mal, wie alleingelassen sie werden. Wobei, nein, das ist das falsche Wort: Sie sind nach wie vor massiv bedroht

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„Das letzte Ghetto“, @ankahajkova.bsky.social 's beeindruckende Sozialgeschichte Theresienstadts, kommt nächstes Jahr in deutscher Übersetzung bei @transcript-verlag.bsky.social heraus. Es fehlt aber noch Geld und ihr könnt bei der Veröffentlichung helfen: www.goodcrowd.org/uebersetzung...

In eigener Sache. Für die deutsche Ausgabe von meinem Buch über Theresienstadt fehlen noch €3400. Ich sammle jetzt und erkläre was und wie hier. Tausend Dank vorab! www.goodcrowd.org/uebersetzung...

Posted with the highest recommendations. Congratulations @ankahajkova.bsky.social!

I just read a really interesting piece by Hannah Riedler on sexual/ized violence in the UWZ in Lodz. One of the officers not only stole money from the ethnic Poles who were being resettled, he also coerced Polish women into sex. doi.org/10.23777/sn....

Oh no! @jaygeller.bsky.social just tells me that Margot Friedländer just passed away. She was there, 80 years ago, when the Red Army liberated Theresienstadt. She will be sorely missed. www.dw.com/en/holocaust...

In Heidelberg wurde die Gedenktafel an Magnus Hirschfeld gewaltsam entfernt: www.queer.de/detail.php?a...

Over the last 22 months, @oksanadudko.bsky.social and I have been plotting this forum in @historyworkshop.org.uk It offers input on decolonizing Eastern European history and how why we urgently need Eastern Europe when doing postcolonial history. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

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For more, you can preorder my book "People without History are Dust" from @uoftpress.bsky.social utorontopress.com/978148755711...

Worthwhile listening to Ben’s sharp analysis and historical contextualization:

I just learned that Robert Sommer's classical study of the concentration camp brothels is out in English. www.fordhampress.com/978153150990...

Ich freue mich sehr auf @utarautenberg.bsky.social s Vortrag zu „Homophobie und queerem Verlangen in den NS-Lagern“ am 2.7. an der Uni Bremen! Kommt vorbei, es wird sehr spannend!

www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue... Super excited about this! @lisamirabai.bsky.social Kommt alle am 2.7. Universität Bremen

Jason Stanley 🔥 "Democracy comes before the price of eggs. But what I think is particularly foolish and naive and stupid is to give up democracy and raise the price of eggs." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

"There is no comprehensive data about sexual violence in Sudan, but a 2024 UN fact-finding mission reported that gender-based violence, including rape and sexual slavery, was prevalent in areas where the war between the Sudanese military and the RSF, was being waged" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/w...

Achievement unlocked! Heute gibt es ein Interview mit mir in dem @queerspiegel.bsky.social Newsletter. Danke, @mannfrauundco.bsky.social für das nette Gespräch!

Margot Friedländer: "So hat es damals auch angefangen. Seid vorsichtig. Macht es nicht. Respektiert Menschen, das ist doch das Wesentliche.“ www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/deut...

Important reflections by @DavidMotadel this morning, drawing on history, on whether we have reached a critical turning point. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This year #HolocaustMemorialDay marks 80 years since the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Visit #TheHolocaustExplained to learn more about conditions in the camp, key events such as the Sonderkommando uprising, and the liberation #OnThisDay in 1945 🔗 https://buff.ly/3CeRb1t

Gestern haben wir im Kiez gemeinsam die Stolpersteine geputzt, im Gedenken an die Opfer der Shoa und in Erinnerung an die Befreiung von Auschwitz. @wrangelkiezu.bsky.social @bizimkiez.bsky.social

There are so many lives touched by the Holocaust, so many stories lost, so few remembered. On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, I've chosen to highlight the story of the Roma child survivor of Auschwitz and Berlin transgender cabaret performer Suleika Aldini. #WeRemember

Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army. We commemorate #HMD2025. Over 12 years of its existence, Nazi Germany its allies murdered millions of Jews, Romanis, disabled, Soviet POWs, "asocials" and "criminals", queer people, political opponents, and others.

Vor 10 Jahren, das erste Thema, das ich - noch im Volontariat - ausführlicher vertieft habe. Der Hass auf jene, die nicht arbeiten, ist eine Kontinuität bis heute. "WeRemember" lediglich performativer Akt ohne Substanz. www.deutschlandfunk.de/asoziale-im-...

'As survivors become older, fewer, frailer, and less able to tell their stories, they are relying on all of us to take on the mantle of remembrance.' Our Chief Executive Karen Pollock CBE writes in LBC on the importance of #HolocaustMemorialDay www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

When looking for stories from the past to guide us in the present, Fritz Kitzing's is right up there. Fritz survived Nazi persecution with the support of family. @jakenewsome.bsky.social pieced together this history along with many others 👇 www.pinktrianglelegacies.org/kitzing